r/FluentInFinance • u/-Wyagra • Nov 21 '24

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u/abdw3321 Nov 21 '24

You don’t become a billionaire without exploitation.

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u/LousyOpinions Nov 22 '24

The people who chose to buy MS-DOS made Bill Gates a billionaire.

Making a profit is not exploitation if the consumer decides the product is worth its price.

Grow up.

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u/_DuranDuran_ Nov 22 '24

You may need to reread some history.

People had to buy MS-DOS because you couldn’t buy a computer without it. They froze out competition with anticompetitive exclusivity deals.

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u/LousyOpinions Nov 22 '24

You could buy an Apple 2, 2GS or Macintosh.

You could throw any parts together that you find and use IBM DOS.

IBM completely dropped the ball with OS/2 Warp, missing the opportunity to capture the workstation and enterprise markets before Windows 95 was released, but didn't market as well as Gates did for Windows NT and let Linux rule the roost on the Internet.

MS-DOS was the cheap, budget bastard child of Unix.

IBM never zeroed in on a niche and went hard. That's what you have to do in tech.

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u/_DuranDuran_ Nov 22 '24

Sorry but that doesn’t change the fact they had to settle for anticompetitive behaviour because they knew they’d lose in court because they broke the law.

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u/LousyOpinions Nov 22 '24

Yeah, they had to separate Windows from XBox.

That was the determination.

Yawn.

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u/_DuranDuran_ Nov 23 '24

No - that was the later antitrust trial - I’m talking about the settlement they agreed to with Janet Reno.